Your imagination can do amazing things when you are scared to be caught with your hand in the cookie jar!!
Jon put his finger up to his mouth telling Alanna to go silent for a few minutes until he found out who is at the door. Jon got out of bed and walked to the door and opened it. "Gary, hey" he looked at Alanna who was still sitting on the chair beside the bed. "Come in"
Alanna gulped she wanted to talk to Jon about this next thing alone and if Gary was there that might cause them problems. She needed to find out what Jon was going to tell his uncle the next morning when he asked why they had ventured to Black City when they had been ordered to not go there by more than one person. Although it would only be a little amount of time before everyone at the palace found out about their little trip she and Jon had taken during the recent trip to Persopolis. "Jon" she looked at him and he realized that Alan still wanted to talk to him.
"Gary, I know we usually talk with each other after a long day of riding but is it possible we do it tomorrow morning during breakfast, or during class?" he looked at Alan who was sitting there still with a scared look on her face. "Alan and I are trying to talk about a few things right now."
"Tell me he said no to being your squire?" Gary pleaded out loud "or are you just trying to figure out what to say to my father come morning when he asks why you went on that little adventure of yours." He thought for a few seconds then looked at his friend Alan and remembered the message from Coram had asked him to tell him, "oh, Alan by the way Coram really was wondering where you had gotten off to."
Alanna just smiled and said "well tell him that Jon and I are just talking so I am still in the castle so he should not have to worry about anything right now. But thanks Gary for telling me that."
Gary looked at Jon. "Best of luck finding something to say to my father about the reasoning for your little adventure. Something else you might want to do is make sure you and Alan have the same stories."
Jon glared at him, "Gary, I know how to get myself out of trouble I have done this before you know. Besides if you don't leave Coram is going to come in here looking for Alan and we will not get a chance to make up our minds about what to tell your father. So will you go tell him, Alan and I are talking and he will be in his room in a while." Jon thought for a second, "I mean for you tell Coram that not your father."
Gary walked to the door, "well goodnight Alan and good luck coming up with a good enough reason to tell my father. I mean you two will probably restrict to the palace for at least a few months because of what you did. But Alan I really hate being the barrier of even more bad news but Coram knows about your little adventure." He walked out and shut the door behind him.
"Well at least it was only Gary," Alanna smiled at Jon. "It could have been someone worse like Duke Gareth wanted to talk right now."
Jon smiled and nodded in agreement. "You have a point there. I take it this is one of the things that you wanted to talk about tonight?" Alan was quiet for a few minutes. "Alan, as far as I can see we are going to be restricted to the palace for at least 3 months so you can just blame it on me if you want." He gave her a hug. "You were following your duty bound thing and protecting the heir to the throne, and we can go with that story at least to my uncle."
Alanna got up from her seat "thanks Jon I knew that you would think of something to say to your uncle now I just get to deal with Coram I can only imagine what he is going to say when he don't give him an answer to all of this."
Jon looked at her "well you can tell him the same thing if you think that he will take or if you think that he will take the truth I would say go for it. You have known him more than the rest of us." Jon replied then remembered Gary's comment about Alan being his squire and Alan did not say anything about it. "Thanks for not saying anything to Gary about you being my squire he still wants you to be his, I think. We can talk about the other stuff in the morning can't we?"
Alanna smiled at her prince. "We can most certainly can continue this conversation in the morning." With that she left the room and walked the little way to her room. Took a breath and opened the door she would have to deal with Coram right now and it would not be able to wait until tomorrow morning.
Jonathan sat on his bed just thinking for a few minutes before looking at the candle on his bedside table. There was a countdown going on there until the Mid-winter Festival, he took another page off the top of it and put it into the flames. He had one thing done already that was finding a squire and asking them to be his squire. He was happy that he got the best one. Then thought about what Alan had asked before Gary had walked in on them. Should he really tell her that Raoul did want her as a squire as well. Would that just make it harder for her to tell Duke Gareth about it? Those were a few things that he had to think about before the morning came and their chat with the Duke came. He had decided to tell his uncle that he wanted a private place to ask Alan to be his squire where no one else could hear him asking him.
With that thought in his head he slowly drifted off to sleep.
A/N: sorry it has taken me so long to get this story updated, but enjoy it anyway. Have a happy holiday whatever you celebrate.
